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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Enzyme
Britannica 11thENZYME (Gr. frfuM<», leavened, from kv, in, and fi^Tj, leaven), a term, first suggested by KUhne, for an unorganized ferment (see FERMENTATION), a group of substances, in the constitution of plants and animals, which decompose certain carbon compounds occurrin ...
Vol. 9, pp. 661-661
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Venus'S Fly-Trap
Britannica 11th... its exsecretion containing panded state, slightly enlarged. (After a ferment or enzyme, Darwin.) similar to that excreted by the leaves of the sundew, which rapidly dissolves the soft parts of the insect. This is produced in such abundance that, when Darwin ma ...
Vol. 27, pp. 1014-1014
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